Welcome to another amazing installment of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! It's cold outside, with more snow and below zero temperatures yet to come, by all reports -- a great time to curl up with a good book. In Word Woman's case, the book of choice would be a dictionary, of course. Here's a selection from one of my favorite dictionaries at the library:
Live dictionary: What some cowboys called a schoolmarm or any other woman with lots of words. In Elmer Kelton's splendid novel The Good Old Boys, the protagonist, Hewey, a good old cowboy, meets a live dictionary, falls for her and in the end has to decide whether to settle down with her or keep on rolling. -- "Dictionary of the American West", Winfred Blevins, Facts on File Books, New York, 1993.
Example: Word Woman's family finds it useful to have a live dictionary on hand to settle disputes while playing Scrabble on family game night.
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